The Blind Spot

This Ace Books edition reproduces The Blind Spot, a science-fiction novel by Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint originally serialized in Argosy-All-Story-Weekly beginning May 14, 1921. Forrest J. Ackerman provides an extensive introduction detailing the novel's origins and significance. The narrative concerns two worlds occupying the same space simultaneously, explored through the figure of Dr. Holcomb, a psychologist investigating a century-old unsolved mystery. The story opens in San Francisco in 1905 with the mysterious arrival of an enigmatic man who appears simultaneously youthful and aged, encountering ordinary objects like cigarettes for the first time. Hall contributed historical and anthropological knowledge while Flint provided expertise in physics and medicine to create this collaboration, considered foundational to modern American science fiction.